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The current issue of the  FAU Magazine contains an article entitled 'Moleküle auf Sendung' (Molecules on air) about two new IDC research projects on molecular communication. Specifically, the article reports on the Research Training Group ‘Synthetic Molecular Communications Across Different Scales: ...

Teena tom Dieck and Maximilian Schäfer presented their work at the 11th ACM International Conference on Nanoscale Computing and Communication (NanoCom), held in Milan, Italy, from October 28–30, 2024. NanoCom is one of the premier conferences for the interdisciplinary molecular communications commun...

On 11th of November, Timo Jakumeit gave a talk to 11th-grade W-Seminar students on "Molecular Communication (MC) - How Communication Engineering Can Be Used to Develop Novel Technologies in Medicine". The presentation covered the basics of MC, a comparison to electromagnetic communication, and the f...

Maximilian Schäfer, Fardad Vakilipoor, Bastian Heinlein, and Timo Jakumeit recently visited the lab of Silke Harteis at the University of Regensburg. This visit is part of an ongoing collaboration on an in vivo 3D testbed for molecular communication using the Chorioallantoic Membrane Model. They exp...

Timo Jakumeit from the Institute for Digital Communications has won the IEEE ComSoc MBMC-TC (Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications Technical Committee) logo competition. Out of five submissions in the final short list, Timo's logo received the highest number of votes, with 38.4% of t...

Brikena Kaziu attended this fall's IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), one of the semi-annual flagship conferences of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, in Washington DC, USA. She successfully presented her latest work titled "Approximate Partially Decentralized Linear EZF Precoding for Mass...

From Wednesday, 9 October 2024 to Friday, 11 October 2024, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober and Moritz Garkisch participated in the 6G Research and Innovation Cluster (6G-RIC) meeting at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) in Berlin. On Wednesday and Thursday, the latest ideas and approaches ...

The Institute for Digital Communications at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg offers two exciting internship positions in the field of molecular communications for undergraduate students from North America, Great Britain and Ireland. These internships are funded by the DAAD (German...

On October 10th and 11th the joint annual Igel seminar of IDC and LMS took place again. During these two days in Osternohe, we heard interesting talks about research topics from (new) staff members of both chairs. The talks gave insights into different topics ranging from signal processing and machi...

Our former colleague Aravindh Krishnamoorthy has taken the final step towards obtaining the degree of Dr.-Ing. On Thursday, September 26, 2024, he successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Non-orthogonal Precoding and Decoding Schemes for 5G and Beyond Downlink MIMO Communication Systems”. ...

Kenneth Mayer, Amine Lahmeri, and Lukas Brand attended and successfully presented their work at this year's IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society, in Denver, Colorado, USA. Robert Schober, President of the IEEE Co...

Amine Lahmeri and Lukas Brand won 3rd and 1st place, respectively, in the IEEE Communications Society's Four-Minute-Thesis (4MT) competition. The 4MT competition challenged graduate students to explain their research topic to a broad, non-specialist audience in just 4 minutes. In the preliminary rou...

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has approved the project "Innovative test platform for molecular communication and microsurgical training - fluorescence systems, novel prostheses and technologies" with funding of more than half a million euros for the years 2024-2026. IDC molecular communication researchers led by Dr.-Ing. Max Schäfer contribute to this innovative, interdisciplinary project.